Window screen and slide.



No- 7l5,437. Patented Dec. 9, |902. I C. L. TAYLOR.

WINDOW SCREEN AND SLIDE.

l'Application led July '7, 1902A (Nu Model.)

me nonms PETERS no. Pamoufwn.. wsnmswn D c UNITED S'i/-iTnS Arent OFFICE.

OALEB L. TAYLOR, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

WINDOW SCREEN AND SLIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 715,437, dated December 9, 1902.

Application iilediluly '7, 1902. Serial No. 114,584. (No model.)

T all whom i5 may concern:

Beit known that I, CALEB L. TAYLOR, aV

citizen of the United States, residing at St.`

- in the novel arrangement, construction, and

combination of parts, aswill be fully hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of this invention is to construct a window screen and slide with top and bot-- tom slides or strips, whereby the screen may be widened and yet be raised within the sash.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a window, showing my improved screen in position therein. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of the screen, showing its construction. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail cross-sectional. view of the upper horizontal portion of the screen, showing its connection.

In the construction of the device as shown I provide two frames 4 and 5, consisting each of avertical and horizontal member to which the reticulated material is secured. The vertical members consist, preferably, of two strips 6 and 7, between which one end of the reticulated material is held. To the strip 6 are secured U-shaped guide-strips S, representing that of a hook, and are arranged to iit into and slide in a similar guide 9, secured iirmly to the sash-guide strips 10. These are for the purpose of allowing the upward movement of the screen. The reticulated material is also secured to the inner surfaces of the horizontal members l1 and held rigid at their free ends by crimp-bars 12, secured to the end of said horizontal members. On the horizontal strips are also provided male and female adjusting-strips 13 and 14. They are in all respects similar to the strips previously described. (See Fig. 3.) The purpose of these is to allow the screen to be adjusted to any desired width to fit various sizes of windows.

By use of the metallic strips and the man ner of construction all cracks are concealed, thus preventing any insect from passing through.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim is- In ,combination with a Window-frame, and vertical guide-strips secured to the sash-guide strips thereof, said guide-strip having inwardly-projecting hooked ends; of a divided window-screen slidably held in the Windowframe by the guide-strips, and comprising a frame, and a sheet of metal carried upon the outer face of each of the sides of the screens frame and having their outer edges bent to form a hook to interlock with the hooked ends of the guide-strips.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CALEB L. TAYLOR.

IVitnesses:

J. F. OBERWINDER, IGNATIA Windsurfen. 

